Fish Frenzy

It is a sad fact of business that not all of them will succeed, and unfortunately the dark specter of failure is looming on Crash Games. For various reasons Crash Games is in a financial tight spot right now and so they are turning to the board game community to help them out. With this final Kickstarter they are hoping to raise the needed money to be able to pay their game designers and their manufacturer what they are owed. So if you are interested in either of the below games, or just want to help, I highly recommend you go to the campaign page and pledge your support. But enough of the doom and gloom, lets get to the games.

The first of the two games being offered is Backyard Builders Treehouse, a drafting game all about building the best treehouse possible. On your turn you have a hand of five cards, you will pick a card to add to you treehouse and then pass the cards. The next player will draw a card to bring the hand back up to five and do the same, continuing around until the end of the round. As for placing cards in your treehouse, whenever you want to place a new card you have to match the top value of the previous card to be able to add it. And that’s it, you go around until you reach a set height based on the number of players and then add up the point totals on the cards. One thing that makes it not a pick the highest card affair is that you get bonus points for having a run of the same color, thus giving you some options when picking cards. Also of note is that the art is done by Vincent Dutrait so you know it will look stunning.

The second game being offered is the set collecting, fishing game called Fish Frenzy. In the game you will be bidding on different boats in order to collect the fish cards below them to get majorities in the different fish types. However, if you want to get the fish from a boat that is already occupied, you will have to give up some fish tokens in order to bump the other player out. You will bid back and forth between the person already there until someone comes out on top, at which point the loser moves away, leaving their bid fish tokens behind. At the end of the round all bid fish tokens go away, so not too many bid wars are going to break out. Once everyone has placed you can either collect all the fish for end game scoring, or you can eat the fish getting you back some of those precious fish tokens. After adding two cards to each boat the next round begins again. At the end you will get 3 points for each fish type you have the most of, and 1 point for the ones you have the second most of, most points at the end is the winner.